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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1969 OF 2009

Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral

..

Appellant

-versus-

State of Maharashtra

..

Respondent

J U D G M E N T

MARKANDEY KATJU, J.

“Qareeb hai yaaron roz-e-

mahshar,

Chupega kushton ka khoon

kyonkar,

Jo chup rahegi zubaan-e-

khanjar,

Lahu pukaaregaa aasteen

ka”

- Ameer Minai

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1.

Heard Shri Jaspal Singh, learned senior counsel for the

appellant and learned counsel for the State of Maharashtra for the

respondent. This is an appeal by special leave against the

judgment of the Bombay High Court dated 26.6.2006, which has

confirmed the death sentence of the appellant given by the learned

Sessions Judge dated 19.3.2005.

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The accused is a businessman. He was a married man having

one son and two daughters. He was married with the deceased

Kanwaljeet Kaur about 25 to 27 years prior to the incident dated

10.4.2003. He had a son Amandeep Singh aged about 20 years

and two daughters viz. Neeti and Taniya, aged about 22 years and

13 years respectively. All of them were allegedly killed by the

accused in the early hours of the morning of 10.4.2003